Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1887-08-19
Published by request of the W. c. 7
TEMPERANCE ARITHMETIC.
From the Church Union. ]


Some wise men once said, lit must
have been a man, for women don't
know anything about logic) that
"facts are stubborn things" $50
are women said a member of the |
w. G. T. T., and the liquor men
will surely find it out one of these
days.
Arithmetic is a sentence that
deals with facts, and few people
think of contradicting its state
ments, although one boy said he
did not believe the table of apothe-
carries weight to bs true. for it says
"Three scruples make one dram,"
but his father took a good many
drains, and never had any scruples
at all.
"Arithmetic is the art Of apply
ing numbers to practical purposes"
saws Professor Davies. Now the
temperance people have practical
purpose. They have a proposition
to demonstrate, a problem to ana
lyze, an operation to perform,
Rule to do it by, a result to obtain.
The proposition is, to rid this
great country of one of the greatest
evils history ever chronicled, and
when they hars demonstrated that
proposition 'o De practical, posi-
BILE, probable, profitable, and POSI-
lively certain, they will deduce
from it a great law, as great law
as Euclid himself ever deduced, the
great law of National Prohibition,
and if it takes as long as it took
Kepler to obtain his three great
laws, the temperance people are 60
ing to deduce that law before they
give up. But it will not take so
longl Our Arithmetical calcula-
tons show that it will not. 1t IS
like a long example in Partial Pay
ments, and we have got so near the
end, that the last New Principal,
which is last years election re-
turns, shows that we are approx
mating the desired result.
The problem now on hand to
solve is: Given Interest, Principal
and Rate, to find the Time that
must elapse before we can obtain
this great law. Temperance people
have long tried to solve the ques-
ton of how long it would take the
old party with the same interest,
principal and rate they have had
for the last score of years to do this.
st. John tried to figure out that
problem till he saw that unless he
should discover the tabled fountain
of perpetual youth, he would never
live to finish it, and the prospect
was that the supply of graphite and
slate pencils would fail long before
the end was reached. Then he
stated the problem a little differ
entity, putting the prohibition party
in the place of a liquor party, and
he now expects to live to hear the
answer given and be don't expect to
find the fountain either. "Given
Interest, Principal and Rate to find
Time" That the temperance peO-
pie have interest, no one disputes.
Their free lectures by the best tai
ent, excellent literature, and the
noble army of w. G. I. U. women
prove it, the Crusade proved it, and
as for principle, that is the founda-
ton of all the work. 1t was for
principle that HaddOck was shot,
that those women not long ago
were egged by political whiskey
mob, and that all these brave ana
true men and women stand scoh
and ridIcule and abuse.
And Rate, we'll everything Is
moving at a good rate now; even
in some little country towns, the
vote has Increased skiold in two
years, and some faster; the rate Is
increasing in geometucal progress
sion; the worst trouble is, that some
so.called temperance men, who nave
a grudge against us for having a
newer lOGgOn than themselves, VIII
} persist in blocking its wheels on
che front, as it climbs the hillside,
and loading it with campaign mud,
! to impede Its progress, but it is 60
ing straight forward with its wheels
made to fit the track of duty, ana
at present the slime" looks Short
and We are encouraged by the phil
osophical tact that the "weight
ofinHuence ''increases as the square